Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics / Edition 1

by Robert Gooding-Williams

Overview

In Look, a Negro! , political theorist Robert Gooding-Williams imaginatively and impressively unpacks fundamental questions around race and racism. Inspired by Frantz Fanon's famous description of the profound effect of being singled out by a white child with the words Look, a Negro!, his book is an insightful, rich and unusually wide-ranging work of social criticism.

These essays engage themes that have dominated debates on race and racial identity in recent years: the workings of racial ideology (including the interplay of gender and sexuality in the articulation of racial ideology), the viability of social constructionist theories of race, the significance of Afrocentrism and multiculturalism for democracy, the place of black identity in the imagination and articulation of America's inheritance of philosophy, and the conceptualization of African-American politics in post-segregation America.

Look, a Negro! will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, critical race theorists, students of cultural studies and film, and readers concerned with the continuing importance of race-consciousness to democratic culture in the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415974158
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/2005
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Gooding-Williams is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

1. Look, A Negro! 2. Black Cupids, White Desires 3. Disney in Africa and the Inner City 4. Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell and Astaire 5. Evading Narrative Myth, Evading Prophetic Pragmatism 6. Race, Multiculturalism, and Democracy7. Politics, Racial Solidarity, Exodus!8. On Jorge Gracia's Hispanic/Latino Identity9. Supposing Nietzsche To Be Black, What Then? BibliographyIndex